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@MrPeanutbutterz Oh I do remember and it’s why I only preordered it after watching Digital Foundry’s PS5 Pro gameplay, ironically what impressed me the most wasn’t the technical side (which does looks impressive) but the game itself, the systems, interactions, openness that resembles BoTW or TOTK, that alone is worth a try for me even if performance isn’t perfect.

Again, if you don’t got the Pro and are still concerned about performance on base PS5 it’s perfectly understandable to wait and see, but this “controversy” is being overblown, I remember same thing happened with Black Myth Wukong as they only kept showing the PC version and it turned out fine, but now some people even seem to be actively rooting for this game to fail which I don’t get at all, didn’t we say we wanted more single-player games?

@MrPeanutbutterz I don’t get it, what’s the big controversy? That they haven’t shown PS5/Xbox gameplay? That they haven’t disclosed the whole game before reviews come out?

It’s not unheard of that a game that’s clearly prioritized PC isn’t promoting console gameplay, the Digital Foundry video on PS5 Pro is impressive to say the least and that alone convinced me to preorder a physical copy, if you still feel unsure about it just wait for reviews or gameplays to come out, don't let it bother you that someone else has pre-ordered it lol.

Funny how it wasn’t a problem until PS5 is the skipped platform…

Open-world fantasy game with great combat and Zelda-like exploration? Already preordered…

A particularly loud group of PC “enthusiasts” has been acting obnoxious the last few months, demanding every PS exclusives on PC after not buying them for 5+ years, crying over Switch 2 exclusives (as they can’t pirate them yet) and now today they’re crying about Crimson Desert having DRM protection (anti-piracy)…

The constant being they get mad when they need to PAY for their games, and it’s not all PC players but a very loud crowd.

In some games while standing still you can see the difference, sometimes even dramatic, but while playing, specially in fast gameplay the difference is negligible, so in my opinion priority should still be 60 FPS performance.

@Fishmasterflex96 You feeling alluded? Obviously I’m not saying every PC player is a pirate, yet that community is not small to say the least, and what a coincidence that RE: Requiem hit record sales and it has anti-piracy software!

Judging by the sales of every single-player game published by Sony on PC I heavily doubt it, as I’ve said before the PC crowd is often very loud (borderline obnoxious with this exclusives talk) but they just don’t like to pay for single-player games, specially the ones with no anti-piracy software…

@naruball It’s absolutely true, it’s not fair to compare the modern eShop to the 3DS Store from 15 years ago, nowadays they have digital games available in several storefronts other than the eShop, you can get some cheaper games from other region and redeem them no problem, plus in my region almost every single game is just cheaper on the eShop and any other storefront than the PS Store, simply because Sony doesn’t have regional pricing, charges in USD, and charges the tax separately from the game price, for example RE Requiem is $74.21 USD on the eShop and Xbox Store with taxes, $56.21 USD on Steam, and a whooping $81.2 on the PS Store, and that’s the case for every single game, as I said, by far the most expensive, abusive with this type of variable pricing, and the most restrictive of them all.

No, it’s nonsense for every angle, in fact I’d say most people with a PS5 right now the least they want to hear is “the PS6 is coming”.

Microsoft situation is a whole different story, if they weren’t announcing something about their next platform most would just assume there isn’t going to be one, still even with them constantly talking many of us still doubt it’ll actually launch as it’s at least one year and a half away and it could be killed after any quarterly meeting.

Bungie loyalists are already keeping this from becoming another Concord, from what I’ve seen I’d say it’s been a mid launch, not too great but not nearly as bad as many people thought it would, already has more legs than Highguard as the game feels solid.

I think we don’t remember enough that Concord peaked at 697 players, like there’s no game that has flopped that hard 🤣

The PS Store just keeps getting worse, it should get called out more as it’s getting borderline unacceptable, out of every digital platform holder Sony’s is by far the most expensive and abusive.

I remember in the latter years of PS4 where almost every game was cheaper on the PS Store and you could find most digital games on third-party storefronts, nowadays it’s way cheaper to find most games on disc even for years-old games, the other day I realized my physical game collection for PS5 games is already larger than PS4’s (and I don’t consider myself a purist of either format as I just buy where it’s cheaper).

Another one of this grifters will say the opposite next week, we’ll be hearing this rampant speculation (because it’s not even a rumor) for a couple of years from now.

It’s funny how every 3 months Xbox has to come out and say something about the next-gen console just to reassure everyone the platform ain’t dead yet.

Honestly, I even forgot this was launching today lol

I don’t know how IGN manages to capture the least attractive and most boring looking gameplay out of EVERY game they play.

I hate to say it but some, if not most PC gamers have reacted insufferably to this report, they act like Sony is 100% dependent on PC and they are the ones that keep Sony and the whole industry afloat when they didn’t even bother to buy Sony games for half a decade now, or rather didn’t pay for them…

@Krlozgod As contradictory as it sounds both statements are true, the mere concept of Sony games being ported to PC does question many people’s decision to buy a PS console, perhaps driving them away from the platform altogether, however sales numbers on PC simply do not justify the potential lost revenue of some customer choosing the PC ecosystem (buying third-party games, MTX, subscriptions) instead of PlayStation’s.

I’ve had my differences with this site’s staff but I do agree with everything explained in this article, it’s the right move for the long-term health of the platform, Xbox is the clearest example how neglecting your own platform in the chase of revenue elsewhere can go terribly wrong.

@Meowmixes98 The PC crowd was VERY loud in demanding Sony games on PC, but for the most part they didn’t actually buy their games.

Good, it’s ultimately great for the long term of the PlayStation platform, revenue from PC ports was minuscule and not worth the devaluation of the console in recent years as how many times have we read “you don’t need a console anymore” or “PS5 no games” trolling online?

I know another game that just rushed to Doomsday… 🤣

Concord 3 getting ready…

@iNightfarer The Horizon live-service game might see Concord becoming a franchise lol

I shouldn’t but I just burst out laughing lmao
It really was Concord 2 🤣

@ECharles Remakes or remasters are actually a great way to bring a franchise back without a new entry as the story has concluded, many people assume all gamers were born at the exact same time and that’s just not true, there’s a huge collection of games that younger gamers simply don’t know of and remakes are a great way to revive a franchise (if done correctly) while at the same time leave the studio to create new IPs and franchises.

The most boring game I forced myself into finishing, literally the best part of this game was its ending, not even kidding, the ending felt like the whole game was getting started — after 30 hours of boredom lol

It ended. The way all franchises intended to before corporate greed refused them to die gracefully.

If you really wanted Uncharted back then Bluepoint could be making a remake of the OG trilogy, oh but wait…

I’m not sure how to feel about this, I’d have rather seen it officially in action with gameplay than finding out through a leak and wondering how it could play…

So both Sony and FromSoft shut down every pitch Bluepoint came up with, this goes to show that Bluepoint was willing to keep making remakes against their own desires to make a new game just to keep having a job, with this news I hope people excusing and defending Sony shut up already and begin to see how shortsighted and terrible manager is Hermen Hulst, he needs to be out of PlayStation by yesterday.

Looks a bit like amateur cosplay but always the first-looks tend to look that way, so far casting seems great, however writing will be the major test since they have to provide more context of Kratos’ Greek past, otherwise his character wouldn’t make sense.

I played through the tutorial and 2 matches, while I actually like the unique artstyle and Bungie’s signature gunplay I found the gameplay loop a bit too slow and it quickly got boring since the very first match, plus the interface seems unnecessarily convoluted.

I think it had the potential to have a very interesting campaign for single-player content but they decided against it.

I’d say it’s very believable and perfectly understandable, sales of single-player games on PC have been nothing short of a disaster (even if Sony will never word it this way), revenue is minuscule compared to their console business, most games don’t even get to 10% of what they sold on PS5/PS4 while at the same time it is devaluing the console pitch with many people claiming you no longer need a console, or trolling with “PS5 no games”, exact same thing that started happening to Xbox all those years ago.

Now, if this is gonna be their strategy moving forward they should be crystal clear about it, in my opinion they should move away from timed exclusives entirely, launch it day one everywhere (specially for all those games as a service) or just keep it exclusive forever, we’ve seen how most games sell poorly on whatever platform it’s not released day one, I’d say the single success of this PC push so far was Helldivers 2, which was the first simultaneous launch on both PS5 and PC.

@twitchtvpat This is exactly why I mean, stop trying to find excuses for Sony, no Nixxes didn’t “replaced them” and it’s quite absurd to say that, if they wanted to retain all 70 Bluepoint employees they’d have said so and didn’t, some of you would really try to excuse and defend Sony even if they did some unthinkable sh*t such as closing a major studio.

@Questionable_Duck What? I’m not “blaming” fans at all, it’s 100% Sony mismanagement, what I’m saying is that fans shouldn’t try to find excuses for Sony or be telling other fans to “move on” as if we’re not allowed to question Sony’s mistakes…

Worst than claiming this is cover up conspiracy (which is ridiculous) is to say and keep repeating there’s no legitimate reason to be mad/frustrated at Sony for closing Bluepoint like I’ve been reading here since last Thursday, I personally haven’t “moved on” from the closure of Japan Studios and still feel its absence this generation.

I’m honestly so fed up with people excusing corporations rolling over the ground throwing tantrums claiming the baby corporation did nothing wrong, what’s gonna take for you to grow a spine and have a single critical thought? Closing Bend? Closing Santa Monica? Closing Naughty Dog? Even then I BET some would still try to spin it as a positive for the company, it’s getting exhausting.

I honestly feel this crossed a line, this is the clearest evidence so far of terrible decision making inside Sony/PlayStation and what’s worst is that the people responsible for those decisions still keep their jobs and we all know this isn’t the last studio they close nor the last game they cancel.

I’m just still baffled how neither Bluepoint or Sony could find a way forward after working together for decades meanwhile Concord was internally treated as “the next Star Wars” and became the laughing stock of the entire industry and Sony’s biggest flop ever, seriously how can Hulst still keep his job?

@themightyant So every PS Studio had the same idea 5-6 years ago about making live-service games? And Sony had nothing to do with pushing most if not all their studios to make those type of games?

Sorry but I don’t believe it, maybe that’s how it worked out in past generations but not since Jim Ryan/Hermen Hulst took over, and I’m not saying he came with a mandate to do live-service games but definitely “encouraged” studios in one way or another to prioritize that over single-player games, and for this situation I still have a hard time believing that Bluepoint had nothing to be passionate about hence why they’re being shut down, I also doubt that live-service God of War game was pitched by them, but we’ll find out in the upcoming weeks and months as more info comes out, looking forward to Jason Schreier’s expected behind the scenes report.

This is what so baffling about the closure, Sony could’ve easily assigned a expected remaster o remake to Bluepoint and profit from it, quite literally easy money, in fact I was convinced they were remaking the God of War trilogy as it made sense and timelines aligned, but that’s obviously not the case.

Hulst needs to go. That non-negotiable, however the damage is done and as I said yesterday this is a HUGE red flag to PlayStation’s future, the fact that the guy who took the decisions is still at the company and the entire team who only did what they were instructed to is gone speaks volumes, this opens the door to more studio closures, specially the ones without a huge franchise tied to it such as Bend or Media Molecule.
It’s about to get much uglier.

Hermen Hulst needed to be outed alongside Jim Ryan, they’ve made generational damage to a brand that was arguably at its peak when they took over, now it’s by far the worst generation ever for PlayStation players.

This is the worst PS news since they shut down Japan Studios, and for me it’s GIGANTIC red flag for Sony/PlayStation in the upcoming years.

I’m so, so disappointed.

Most people forget that 7/10 is still a good game, I almost bought it at launch but $30 just felt a bit too much and the art style pretty much deterred me from buying it, I’ll get it whenever it’s gets discounted on PSN.

@get2sammyb You are being very oblivious to 2 facts:

1) Whenever PS6 releases, optimization for PS5 stops being a priority, it’ll quickly become into a situation that “if you don’t want the game to look blurry or run at steady 60 FPS just get a PS6” instead of further optimizing for one platform, it already kinda is with PS5 Pro, specially for third-party games, I’d say that right now Switch 2 ports are demonstrating how important optimization is and how underutilized the PS5 has been for 5 years already.

2) No one is “forced” to buy new hardware, but we also don’t want to be pushed into it yet by making some games exclusives for PS6, which is bound to happen because otherwise why jump generations at all?

I love both gameplay styles, but the old one should be preserved as it was, also I’d argue the old one is currently a more unique style of gameplay compared to yet another over-the-shoulder action style game.

“I challenge you to dig out your crusty old PS4 and spend one full week with creaky 30fps games and glacial loading times.”

My man, since the PS5 came out I’ve easily spent entire MONTHS using only my PS3 enduring those “glacial loading times” and not even at a solid 30 FPS, 155 million people who got a Switch 1 also have no problem playing with not the greatest textures and performance, what an out of touch take, it seems you live in a bubble of your own making.

“Maybe I’m increasingly out of touch…”
Yes, yes you are.

What I hate about early access is that it gives the perfect tool to engagement baiters as they post eye-catching footage of the game spoiling it for everyone else.

Best. State of Play. Ever.

Truly the first time I can grade it Excellent without any caveats.

This is why always some people whine after every State of Play, they just have unrealistic expectations.

We don’t even know if that game exists, and if it does you really think Sony would release an entry for arguably their biggest franchise without any previous marketing push whatsoever? Again, unrealistic.